Michael Moore Talks Impeachment; Queens President Becomes Queens DA; A Nigerian-American Journalist Arrested; A Student Newspaper for Every Public Schools

The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 13, 2019

  • The country is divided on the question of impeachment. Michael Moore, American documentary filmmaker and director of most recently of “Fahrenheit 11/9,” “Capitalism: A Love Story,” “Where to Invade Next” and the Broadway show “The Terms of my Surrender,” and now host of the podcast “Rumble with Michael Moore,”  talks about whether there's a way to find common ground.

  • Melinda Katz, outgoing Queens Borough President and Queens District Attorney-elect, talks about her transition from Queens Borough President to District Attorney.

  • The Nigerian government is under fire for arresting a New Jersey-based journalist and activist, Omoyele Sowore. Opeyemi Sowore, wife of Omoyele Sowore, and Jackie Guenego, Haworth, NJ councilwoman, talk about his plight, and what they are doing to try to get him home.

  • Currently, only 12.5% of New York City public schools have a school newspaper. Dennis Mihalsky, president of Students Disrupting, and Jahdiel Benzant, student at City College Academy of the Arts, talk about their group's efforts to make sure every school has a newspaper and a school newspaper class.

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